The St. Lucia-based Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) said Monday that babies being born in Grenada and Antigua-Barbuda are to benefit from a new sickle cell project which will test for the disease. … [Read more...]
WHO Honors Jamaican Doctor for Public Health Leadership
Jamaican doctor and professor, Peter Figueroa, has been recognised at the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a health leader for his contribution to public health locally and internationally over the last four decades. … [Read more...]
Innovative Orthopedic Procedure successfully performed at Cayman Health City
Cayman Health City continues to raise the bar for introducing the latest medical services to the Caribbean. The latest procedure was performed on a Caymanian man who was in great pain as a result of being in a car accident decades ago where his right femur was now shorter than his left. … [Read more...]
Eastern Caribbean Free of Congenital STDs
Since 2010, PAHO/WHO has collaborated with the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to implement a regional initiative for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS and congenital syphilis. In 2013, 2324 children were born with HIV in LAC which is a decrease of 45% than in 2010. In Cuba, less than 2% of children whose mothers have HIV are born with the virus, the … [Read more...]
Jamaica: Dengue Fever Outbreak
Jamaica is now in the midst of a dengue outbreak. Like chikungunya and Zika, dengue fever is a mosquito-borne tropical disease caused by a virus. Unlike chikungunya and Zika, however, dengue is endemic to Jamaica. In other words, it is always in the envrionment somewhere in the on island. There are four types, known as serotypes, of the virus that causes dengue: DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, DEN-4. … [Read more...]
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